Posted on 04/18/2008 8:38:05 AM PDT by DFG
When Texas authorities seized 416 children in a raid on a compound of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Americans quickly learned that the religious group encourages polygamy and the marriage of young girls to older men. Escape, a memoir published last fall, offers a more detailed portrait of life with the FLDS. In the book, Carolyn Jessop, a sixth-generation polygamist describes her life as the fourth wife of Merril Jessop, who ran the recently raided Texas compound. Carolyn left Merril in 2003, before he moved to Texas, but her memoir sheds light on the man and on the beliefs and practices common within the insular community. Below, Slate flags Carolyn's most intriguing, strange, and heartbreaking allegations.
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As opposed to someone who pops in, does a drive-by insulting, and adds nothing of substance to the conversation?
Interesting.
some girls it puberty at 10 or 11. They are still children.
And what are you? The accuser in chief?
Coward.
"You are a dishonorable person."
He just told you he was a Lt. Colonel in the U.S. Air Force.
"A true Westboro Baptist."
Idiot.
As a man on this forum, I’d be more than happy for my ex-wives to tell all they know to anyone who will listen.
But I don’t have any ex-wives. How behind-the-times and positively quaint.
Pretty sick individuals. Very interesting, IMO, how they immediately kick someone out who even questions their authority. Can’t be having any free-thinkers giving the drones bad ideas, huh?
Nope. Just an observer.
Nope. Just an observer.
silly double-post. Sheesh
That's not to say that there are not exceptions, but I think everyone is assuming that 'unwilling' is overwhelmingly the case when it appears to be exactly the opposite. The objections should therefore, disappear.
Are you then, saying that you are against statutory rape laws?
susie
DOH!
I find it interesting how such an “honorable” person as yourself can make such judgements about the honorability of others whom you know nothing about.
Fankly, if I were having sex with an underage minor in my home, I would fully expect the law to come and do something about it.
susie
Is there a reason you keep insulting people on threads with the Westboro Baptist Church? It is getting a bit old you know.
Boy - you are really a El Strango on Free Republic. I mean a Sicko El Strango.
I am not a Wesboro Baptist, but, what the heck.
You are a dishonorable person
Well, I have seven rows of military ribbons from the US Government that says otherwise. I know you don't trust the US Govt - or our boys in Afghanistan, or Iraq, or Korea. Why would you???
A true Westboro Baptist.
You are demonstrating your "Debating" skills here Old Mountain Man. I already told you .....uhhhh...NO!......I don't belong to them.
You are perhaps the worst intellectual mind I have ever encountered. What do you do all day? Order around women (and God forbid children) who are so terrified of you they bow to your commands?
I told you before - I am not one of your subjects - and moreover, I have Jesus Christ as my Savior. I am an adopted child of God.
Your insults to me are like a flea on an iron plate.
I trust you can recognize personal abuse when you see it.
Thanks.
I trust you recognize the news forum, as opposed to the religion forum, when you see it.
You have to be kidding me?
OMM- YOU are complaining?
Shall I post what you posted?
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